This is the Bible for the many enthusiasts of British Naval history in the age of Nelson. What Sir Charles Oman did for the Peninsular War, William James (d.1827) did for the Napoleonic Wars at sea writing a comprehensive, massively detailed account of the reallife actions that lay behind the fiction of C. S. Forester and Patrick OBrian. James had the advantage of writing at the time of the events he describes so well, and wrote hundreds of letters to survivors of the wars at sea, as well as scrutinising every despatch, ships log, foreign report and private narrative that he could lay his hands on. Never, wrote the Fortnightly Review, was there a man more painstaking, more indefatigable, more scrupulously conscientious. Vol. I (179396) gives a brief history of the Royal Navy from 1488 until 1793 and the outbreak of the first war with Revolutionary France when the main narrative begins with Lord Howes operations at Toulon, his victory on the Glorious 1st June and the capture of French islands in the West Indies. Vol II (17971800) covers Lord Hoods victory at the battle of Cape St Vincent and Nelsons triumph at the Nile. Vol III covers the Battle of Copenhagen and concludes with Nelsons great victory and death at Trafalgar. Vol IV (18051809) concentrates on ViceAdmiral Colloingwoods postTrafalgar operations and the actions of Sir Richard Strachan, and Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge. Vol V ( 18091813) looks at actions in the Dutch East Indies and the 1812 War with the United...

Binding: Paperback;502 pages; Publisher: Naval & Military Press; Classification: HBW; Weight: 878 g; Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 36

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